Well done the voters

The deliberate log jam created by the last Parliament was preventing good government, undermining us abroad and seeking to subvert the results of the EU referendum. We had to ask the voters to make a decision.

They have done so in a clear way. There was a big choice to make. Did they want a Corbyn led government with massive promises to increase spending, borrowing and taxes, or did they want a moderate reflation of the economy with some spending increases for important services and some tax cuts? Did they trust Labour or the Conservatives with the security and future of our country. They gave a convincing answer last night.

There was also the question of how many voters did wish to go back on the referendum to leave the EU. Prime Minister in waiting Jo Swinson offered the country the choice to revoke our application to leave by a simple repeal vote in Parliament. It was a bold and radical proposal. Just 11% backed it, and her own voters instead asked her to leave Parliament. I hope those who keep telling us people want to remain will reflect on this result.

Labour says they lost because the failed to back Brexit, having done so in 2017 when they got a better result. Doubtless there was some of that in the poor results they achieved, but there was also the prior questions about economic management and direction and style of leadership which dominated in many discussions.

Now this new Conservative majority government has two immediate tasks. It does need as the PM says to “get Brexit done”, which means taking back control of our money, borders and laws, and means negotiating that Free Trade Agreement the EU has promised in principle. It also means an early budget, as we are in urgent need of a stimulus, at a time of world slowdown and worldwide manufacturing recession.

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The country and Tory party owe a debt of gratitude to Nigel Farage. He personally gave so much, ridiculed, smeared, hounded, threat of violence, assaulted. All for his country to be independent. Coward Cameron now begrudgingly giving forced platitudes after he ran off!

Well done JR. You will be required to act very quickly and very robustly against Johnson’s servitude plan. Give the backbone to new entrants to force a leave worth having. WTO by 31/01/2010.

I agree fully on Farage. Let us hope Boris can be encourage to take the right road to far smaller government, a real Brexit and climate and energy realism.

Let us hope Kwasi Kwarteng will be allowed to have a sensible energy policy. He is a sensible chap even if he as usual for energy ministers has zero science. Peter Lilly would be better. Kwasi would be better than (Islamophobia enquiry pusher) lefty Javid I suspect as chancellor.

Yes sort out the BBC licence. Get rid of it.
Demand a bye election if changing party after winning a seat
No Scottish Referendum. We have already had a once in a lifetime vote.
Go to the EU and tell them what we want instead of being dictated to.

Presumably there is a percentage that want to leave the UK and leave EU, presumably there is a percentage that want to leave UK but don’t support Ms Sturgeon/SNP. I suspect that taking about 45% of vote given other factors probably indicates there is a majority to leave. I would think a quick referendum with no need for a campaign – Scotland have been through all this quite recently – would sort it out one way or another. I think the sooner the better.

I see no need for rUK to campaign for Scotland to remain in UK. It was unpleasant seeing Guy Verhofstadt in UK during EU elections, I think rUK should leave Scotland to arrange, fund and hold a referendum asap.

Yes, the fallacy that My Enemy’s Enemy Is My Friend did exactly that, and allowed the Tories to mop up the BNP-EDL-BF vote in areas where those would otherwise have been strong, under whatever name they go now.

Actually, Labour’s vote was generally at the 2001 level, when they got a majority.

I wonder what will happen when sensible arrangements with the European Union are agreed, as now seem likely without having to appease the ERG and the DUP?

Watching Sky at the moment and they are touring former Labour strongholds in the North East & Midlands. What is very clear is that whilst Brexit was an issue, life-long Labour voters refused to vote for Corbyn. A man in West Bromwich has just said he remembers his Dad only being able to work 3-days a week and the lights going out.

Thank goodness for that but what a pity many young Labour supporters don’t remember the 70’s because it would open their eyes to the likes of Corbyn & McDonald.

Fortunately, this morning we can breathe a sigh of relief – as the common sense of folk in the North have pulled us back from the Marxist abyss…

This could very well be the start of the big betrayal. Boris has a mandate to get us out of the EU but I fear it will be a semi detached leaving with Boris aligning us up to all the EU institutions.
When he presents the awful WA to Parliament and tries to ram it through with all the bear traps and pitfalls, we will know his intentions.
The Spartans have been neutralised so he has a more or less free hand.
No need for the WA or transition to nowhere period.
Out means Out

The Spartans have indeed neutralised themselves. Our kind host, was the last man standing. Whether he does still stand I dont, know, though either way it’s academic. A one-man rebellion will change nothing. I woukd humbly suggest that semi-detached is over-optimistic. I think we’ll be in the granny annexe 😉

The alternative would have been no Brexit at all – so what would you prefer? I’m sure his agreement isn’t perfect but it’s most certainly better than not leaving. Why not give Boris the benefit of the doubt and see what happens now his hands aren’t tied behind his back.

The word Life is becoming Laaf and the word Like is becoming Laaak, the word Skills is becoming Skiwels.. I could go on. All sound very baby-ish and the true reason why some find it difficult getting jobs.

Indeed, and especially the BBC WS (its purpose, reason for being), for far to long now the WS has appeared to be the true face of the often suggested ‘Brussels Broadcasting Corporation’.

Might I suggest taking funding fully back to (a reformed) FCO, moving WS editorial production and presentation away from NBH (and/or MC in Salford), the editorial ethos within the WS was far, far, better when located in Bush House!

JR, glad you beat the turncoat traitor Lee. The other Tory traitors were beaten as well.

Sadly Yvette Cooper got back in by a whisper. It is shocking why so many like her supported a anti semite Marxist security threatening party who hated its own country.

Suggest you read Con Woman and you will see how bad Johnson’s servitude plan is on fishing.

You told us you wanted a small majority of thirty, unfortunately the ERG will not be able to change or influence Johnson’s servitude plan unless the ERG numbers increase.

Johnson claimed today it gave him a mandate for zero carbon by 2050 because that is what the voters voted for. I do not think that is true at all. His freeloading girlfriend might want it, but not the vast public at large.

“Johnson claimed today it gave him a mandate for zero carbon by 2050” you say clearly he has little grasp or understanding the laws of physics, energy engineering or economics. This would be impossible and a very damaging thing to even try to do. Can he appoint someone sensible with some grasp of science, numbers and energy reality (like Lord Lilley, Lord Ridley or even Corbyn’s brother Piers) to this vital area.

The increase in atmospheric CO2 concentrations are, on balance, doing far more good than harm in greening the planet (by increasing tree and plant growth, biodiversity and crop yields). This as many sensible realist scientists like Freeman Dyson point out. Anyway exporting high energy intensive jobs then importing (steel for example) does nothing for world C02 emissions probably make them worse. If you actually think C02 is bad that is in the St Greta “the alarmist, end of the world in neigh” mode?

Hope, the ERG now has a whole lot more support! And Boris knows it was Brexit wot won it! He also knows how ruthless the British voters are – they sack politicians and governments with monitors regularity! He dare not betray us – so cheer up! It’s a Great Day.

Perhaps your memory fails you. ERG and Johnson said May’s deal was dead. His deal is Mayhab’s servitude plan and now they are all supporting it!

First job leave clean break no WA or PD, change parliament act, climate Change Act, get rid of Supreme Court, quangos etc. This will Send out a clear loud message to remain metropolitan elite establishment. Disband and disperse them. Everyone knows get main business done in first two years. No time to dilly dally.

The ERG may be pushed out but in order for the PM to reconcile his core Tory voters with ‘borrowed’ Labour voters (and the amount of leftism that is going to have to be paid back to them) he must deliver a proper Brexit.

That is what both have asked for.

There is a third grouping. Brexit voters like me who have also lent our vote to him.

I ask Sir John to remind him of this fact and also take this opportunity to thank John for moderating one of my posts in this thread and saving me from some embarrassment and unwinnable conflict as my comment was wrong.

Yes, LL. I fear that this WA might leave the door ajar for the big feet of the EU.
Give them enough power over us (as with this current WA) and they will find a way of scuppering/nobbling/disallowing any future elections so that we’d be stuck with THEIR choice of what’s ”acceptable” for The Project.

A word of friendly advice, in business ( as in life) the winners are people who get strong feedback and then alter their approach and customer offering The losers are people who when facing strong feedback , ignore it, find excuses and try to fool themselves that its the customers who dont understand

Its the same with politics. Labour only won elections in the last 50 years when they had a centrist social democratic approach , failure to recover some form of New Labour type approach will destroy the Labour Party. We need a healthy opposition

The Tories were the only party to offer Brexit, they won, again , and again and again

How many times are you going to lose before you finally wake up and realise people dont like marxism, people dont like the EU and people dont like the woke identity politics. Stop pandering to the kiddie vote and you might get somewhere

And the Brexit Party won the EU elections and the vast majority did not vote to support MEPs opposed to Art 50… in fact the vast majority didn’t vote for an MEP at all and it didn’t really make any difference anyway because the EU Parliament is a bogus parliament.

Furthermore 99% of Remainers haven’t a clue who their MEPs are ! I know because I always ask them when they tell me they voted Remain.

I sucked it up when none of my UKIP candidates were selected – we should have had 70 odd MPs.

Unlike Martin I abide by the rules and honour results.

I sincerely ask him to leave the country if he can’t put up with its system. The alternative to it is a succession of useless coalitions. He seems determined to keep us deadlocked until we break and he gets his way.

Congratulations John. This morning the first thing I did was to search out the Wokingham result and then greatly relived, I looked for my own constituency to make sure we had put an end to Grieve’s career. The future now seems brighter than it has for three years.
ps I love the “Prime Minister in waiting Jo Swinson” line.

My hope is we as a Country can move on from the last damaging deceitful Parliament that wasted 3 years fighting the People in a disgusting manner. In 3 years the last parliament did more damage to the UK economy than anyone could have imagined. It is not leaving the EU that damaged the UK it was a Parliament that didn’t want to run a Country that pulled the UK back.

To be an all inclusive nation it has to be recognized that we will thrive by be being as far as possible removed from any EU rule, rules and interpretations of their version of trade and partnership means. The EU is a protectionist club built to profit its rulers not the people.

Continually making a point about the Iraq war and forgetting it was Blair and the Labour Party that decided to go to war in order to try to show how wonderful and peaceful the EU is, fails.
The EUs foreign policies have been poor.
Yugoslavia Ukraine Russia Ireland Catalonia.
Their current expansionist policies are a future danger to peace in Europe.
Your comparison concerns domestic economic policies which are not relevant in this context.

I watched Christine Lagarde on an American network yesterday delivering her first speech for the ECB.
She did not mention Brexit but said that sometime in the month of January 2020 , she and the ECB will be doing a “Strategic Review” lasting for a full year. She could not be detailed but would be consulting here there and everywhere.”The first one for sixteen years”.
I think she had an idea Boris would be successful. Perhaps she can move faster.We are now impatient.

LOL. How does that woman do it? She has training as a Lawyer but not as a Banker but is now running the ECB having left her top job in the IMF, where all she did, was to promote the EU.
I suppose its could be like having an EU plumber in charge of Urology in a major hospital.

Congratulations John, you were the only candidate that ran a positive campaign, without trying to smear your opposition.
I thought the LibDem campaign was an absolute disgrace, and Dr Philip Lee has now got his just desserts, as has Jo Swinston.
I wonder how much they actually spent with the 17 different leaflets that were delivered through my letterbox.

Now let us hope that Boris will move with speed, to push the Conservatives forward to a sensible and clean Brexit, so that we do actually take back proper control of our own Country and at the same time get a grip on so many Government Departmental failures of the past.

Well done indeed, for seeing through the dire Corbyn, magic money tree, fraudulent, fake promises and con tricks of would be thieves Corbyn/Mc Donnall and the rest. They were/are complete con merchant and the voters, especially the sensible northerners, saw right through it. A shame the Scots did not see through the snake oil saleswoman Sturgeon. What do they see in her and the dire Ian Blackford?

The Conservative won easily despite the huge, blatant and incessant bias of the BBC and Channel 4. Left wing, pro EU, anti-Boris and climate alarmist pushing drivel from them every single day.

Great to see the back of Grieve, Soubry, Gauke, Hammond and the rest of the traitors. Though some blatant traitors are still now Conservative MPs having been allowed to stand.

The dire, wrong headed, endlessly interrupting, lefty remainer dope English graduate Andrew Marr thinks Boris will now move to the centre and take on the hard Brexit wing. This would be a huge mistake if he does. The Conservative party is far too left wing already.

The unelected Andrew Adonis just now:- We just had the second referendum – but it was a second referendum on Corbyn, not on Brexit, which is why we lost it’

What a deluded man he is, but alas as a Lord we cannot get rid of him.

What is needed now is large tax cuts, far smaller government, cheap energy, culling on all the green crap agenda, a real & clean Brexit (not the May Treaty deal with fig leaves), a bonfire of red tape, competitive banking, relaxation of planning, a fiscal and monetary boost and some uplifting vision.

Marr might be a dope, but I’m confident that he is essentially right – though in terms of substance, BJ never moved from the centre. It was only some of his rhetoric that leads some to believe he’s lurching the country to the right.

Same old, same old. Thank goodness you didn’t write the manifesto. The Tories would have never been elected. As ever you are ‘deaf’ to the politics.

The green agenda is here to stay as is the need to invest more in public services. Once Brexit gets done, we revert to domestic politics and the ‘old traditional’ labour constituencies, if they are not to switch back need a more inclusive One Nation approach than than the me me me of the traditional wealthy Tory right.

What did you think of Al’s speech, where near the top of his priorities was tackling climate change? Perhaps he will propose Ultra Low Emissions Zones for all of our great cities and not just London too?

I wonder if he will revive his amnesty for clandestine immigrants with his unfettered majority?

Varadkar thinks that he will agree to European Union rules and standards to ease a trade deal too. Oh, with Our European FRIENDS.

Yesterday morning, I guessed at 192 Labour seats. I was angry when the projection was one out. Anyway, it turned out to be in reality 203,
Ok ok I was a few thousand votes out.
Pundits say they are surprised “the poorest in decades-long Labour constituencies, who need buses…voted Conservative!!!!!.”
Our media never understands patriotism. Never understands our land is all they have.

I’ve suffered under the left wing Tories for the last however many years. I hated the Blair years too.
As to Boris, I am fully aware of his drawbacks, but make no mistake, a commie Corbyn govt would have been more than most could stand.
I have a particular insight into the sort of people who trail behind him. Not nice!!
I also realise that ( with the help of sheep) we have been manoeuvred into having NO ALTERNATIVES.

For over a decade a log-jam has materialised on roads, railways, in schools, hospitals and housing, in the real world outside Westminster bubble.
Nigel Farage mentioned it to Andrew Neil:
“Have you been in the M25 recently?”

Due to PC over this time few people could discuss it.
The log-jam eventually materialised in Parliament.
Despite the worst weather yesterday folks braved the storms and voted in record numbers.

Exactly – sick of hearing what the Scots want. Time we English were asked what we want and maybe we want to be independent from the whinging Scots and see more of English taxes be spent on England for a change.

Ah so people not old enough to vote in a referendum are disenfranchised because its their future too but England , Wales and NI aren’t allowed a vote on the breakup of the UK of which they are all a part … got it

My misgivings that your Party’s performance in Parliament post-referendum would have produced a dismal election outcome has proved ill founded. Clearly the electorate considered the prospect of a Corbin/McDonald/Monentum axis too awful to contemplate, neither did they accept the ‘stay in the E.U. ‘ LibDem position.

Now the hard work begins in earnest to conclude a future free trade relationship with the E.U. and deal with the SNP demands.

It’s a great result. In addition to the issues you mention we need the Conservative government to deliver real economic change to the less successful parts of the country – tackle poverty and get young people on the property ladder. That will consolidate those spectacular gains in previously Labour seats.

Sir John,
Congratulations of your re-election as member for Wokingham. Thoroughly deserved.

Now it looks as though Boris will have a good working majority, please get him deliver the sort of Brexit that any sensible Brexiteer wants. Quick, clean, WTO terms, No WA, No £39 billion. No implementation period.

As you say:- It does need as the PM says to “get Brexit done”, which means taking back control of our money, borders and laws, and means negotiating that Free Trade Agreement the EU has promised in principle. It also means an early budget, as we are in urgent need of a stimulus, at a time of world slowdown and worldwide manufacturing recession.

Well yes but the dire Boris W/A does not take back Control of the above. Much of the W/A is totally unacceptable – just very expensive handcuffs for the next stage of negotiation.

Marr just on BBC1 now we all need to reflect about what we got wrong – well Marr you got almost everything wrong as did Newsnight, Channel 4, the Today Programme, World at One …. and the rest of green crap, pro EU lefties. A shame we cannot vote him and these people out of their jobs.

Let’s see what a Tory majority can do.
BREXIT
Repeal the Fixed term Parliament act
Put the BBC on a commercial footing – it’s film archive should go to .. the British library. The rest of it, subscription service only.

Despite what others have previously claimed, this election was all about Brexit as I have said from the beginning.
To those anti-democrats who relentlessly clamoured for a ‘peoples vote’ or ‘second referendum’ You have had your second vote and the answer is clear. “Get Brexit done” Now either shut-up and go away. Or work with the Government to get this process sorted out, as quickly as possible. Three and a half years have already been wasted.

A ‘Brucie bonus’ from the election is of course the end Corbyn. The Communist friend of all terrorists and enemy of Britain is toast. The sooner he disappears into retirement (in Venezuela probably) the better.

I will not hide my disappointment that there will be no BXP representation at Westminster. This in my view will mean that the Tory Party will push through their version of BREXIT, a BREXIT that will be as long a running political sore in the UK as much as our membership of the EU has.

Sad to see Richard Tice not get in in Hartlepool. The leave vote of 21,000 was split down the middle and allowed the Labour MP to get in again on much much less. The Tories could have been gracious in seats like this and stepped down especially as Fargage gave the Tories a free run in all those Tory held seats. Let’s hope Boris doesn’t do a May and renege on all his tough talk and we end up with Brino i.e. his tweaked May deal which is not what we voted for.

Congratulations on your own result – a great relief given what we were reading in the press.

I hope Boris will not squander the victory – the new Govt needs to be bold and radical in making the UK super-competitive post-Brexit. It would be a terrible risk to go into the next election – even if it seems a long way off today – without having delivered real benefits in terms of growth, prosperity, investment etc.

Meanwhile it is great to see the far left Labour Party do so badly given their absurd policies and unpleasant and mendacious campaign. One day there will be a swing to the left in an election and it would be a huge boost to long term confidence in the UK if that alternative was of the more or less rational and sensible social democratic variety and not the nonsensical marxism we got from Corbyn and McDonnell.

Sadly the system is broken, the parties are picking the wrong people as candidates, that’s a fundamental problem.

The people were never going to vote for Stalinist policies.

The people were never going to vote to have a democratic referendum overturned.

Labour lost it, far more than Conservatives won it. Cannot depend on that happening the next time.

The people picked the least worst option.

That does not for me mean support for the sillier Dom Cummings ideas, or the “Northern Powerhouse”, or green crap.

Boris is making a few mistakes already, he should be saying the NHS is not a sacred cow and we need to be able to discuss how to improve healthcare for all moving forward. He should not be promising to meet green targets, when all they do is shift production abroad and increase net world pollution.

But hopefully in among all that there are some good people who can get some genuinely good things done.

State regulators need some properly independent complaints processes, a shake up of the inertia of always picking people like themselves, starting with tanks of the lawn of the corrupt Financial Services Ombudsman.

IR35, remember what you said, you need to deliver.

And immigration, really stop making it easier to import cheaper workers from abroad discouraging Brits from training in those areas. Intra Company Transfer Visas, go back to the topic and resist any pressure to stop talking about it.

Most of the politicians and their strategists start with what THEY want to happen then try to force people to agree Cummings finds out what people want then amends the strategy to suit. Its also how us entrepreneurs work too

Thats how he captured the working class vote

Where as the marxists had to invent problems that then their marxism solved , problem being their invented problems are seen as nonsense by most people

Congratulations. You asked the voters to help you take back control – to give you a clean break from the last Parliament, because it is impossible to move forward when you are half-in and half-out of government. Now you have the power to do the same thing for our country.

You can spin the election result anyway you wish but never forget the last 2 european elections and this general election was, and will always be, about leaving the EU and not negotiating a WA…..the peoples mandate is to leave nothing more nothing less

Yes, Anonymous. I’m a lifelong Conservative voter – but reluctantly I have to agree with you. I wouldn’t have voted Conservative this time if there’d been a BP candidate here. I believe many of us feel that, having been manoeuvred into this position, we must give them a chance.
I just hope that they don’t sell us out so completely to the EU that all our real choices in the next GE (if the EU would then allow one on OUR terms) would be taken away.
I’m glad of the result – but I watch with trepidation, not unalloyed joy.

John, there is already talk of a softer Brexit because of this large majority. I do hope this is wrong. Boris needs to be strong and stand up against the EU. The people have now instructed Parliament in no uncertain terms. We voted out and that is what we expect. Well done to you and our new government. Just make sure Boris gets it right. This is the first time Conservatives have had a chance to prove their worth in many traditional Labour seats. Don’t let them or us down.

Indeed FuS especially as the ERG are no longer in a position to hold them to account and the only reason Farage stepped down was because he had been assured Boris was going to go for Canada plus option. Now they’ve got a majority, let’s hope they don’t betray us all and still insist on giving us their tweaked version of May’s rotten deal. A Conservative MP the other morning was actually defending the £39 billion as paying what we owe – unbelievable.

Firstly, the Tories now own Brexit. They make it a success or they own the entire blame when, as I expect, they fail.

Secondly, they have no popular mandate for Johnson’s Brexit. The majority voted for remain / second referendum parties. This guarantees Brexit can be easily undone in future.

Thirdly, Corbyn is toast. Labour now has a chance to rebuild.

Fourthly, Farage’s political career is over. Failed again at Westminster, his Brussels platform will soon go. He’ll be on I’m a Celebrity at some point but he is now irrelevant.

Fifthly, the success of the SNP and nationalists in Northern Ireland guarantee that the UK can not leave with a hard Brexit. If Johnson wants a hard Brexit the price is the Union.

Sixthly, the argument in favour of electoral reform has just been cemented. The Lib Dems got 11% of the votes – around a quarter of the Tory total – but only 1/40 of the Tory seat total. The Greens and Brexit Party are also victims of this huge democratic deficit which sees a swathe of the electorate all but unrepresented. Reform is now inevitable.

Finally the collapse of the Tory vote among under 45s appears to be spectacular. This is a dead party walking but one which does not realise it yet.

I’ve long compared Brexit to cancer. The treatment was always going to be painful. We’ve now started chemo. We either recover or die. Either way the Brexit cancer will be gone before long.

You can carry on with your rants for another 5 years now andy.
And probably for the next 10 years because Labour won’t claw back the big majority the Conservatives now have.
I hope you feel as bad as I did when Blair got his three election victories.

Lets face the fact that without Nigel Farage, there would have been no Referendum and no Brexit at all. Cameron, very reluctantly, was forced into declaring the big event of 2016 only by the threat of UKIP taking away the seats from the Conservatives, at that time.

You’ve not included in your analysis Electoral fraud and the majority of the electorate in England and Wales being nobbled by the Russians.

I’m afraid You are still living in the London bubble, I have mentioned before that here in the midlands and the north you won’t find anyone draped in EU flags shouting ‘stop Brexit’ as the results from yesterday proved. Even the ‘stop Brexit’ man Mr Bray only managed a meagre 949 votes standing as a libdim.

Nearly all of the democracy denier MP’s have now been removed from the HoC, so have plenty time on their hands now to reflect on their disgraceful conduct the last 3.5 years.

Andy – why does the word ”maundering” spring to mind when I try to read your posts?
I daresay Sir John allows you to appear to give us a little light relief when others are writing serious and thought-provoking stuff.

By the way, Andy – perhaps you could explain why the turnout was low in areas with more young people. Couldn’t get out of bed? Had more interesting things to do? Mum didn’t call them in time? Didn’t actually care much about the result? Who knows? You say you’re ”young”. So…

I try to remember Churchill’s great maxim about magnanimity in victory, but in your case it’s very difficult.

On this site you have been predicting 1) the EU wouldn’t remove the backstop so enabling at least in principle a true free trade based Brexit, which they now have, and 2) the Conservatives would be wiped out at this election (although you’ve been backsliding on that one since Boris took over!)

You’ve been wrong on both. You’re going to be wrong on what you’ve written here also, because the EU will likely now agree a sensible FTA, and the Country will see the economic benefits of Conservative govt come through as has usually happened in the past.

Scottish separatism will not succeed – once the UK is out of the EU it becomes a much bigger risk for Scots, so they won’t vote for it.

We’ve had a vote on PR already, we don’t want that either thanks. But we do want equal sized constituencies which we will now at long last get.

As for a mandate. Boris Johnson has just got the biggest mandate of any party for 30 years on a very clear policy. On your argument no British govt has ever had a mandate to do anything as none has ever had 50% of the vote (and nor has any other european governing party).

Have a few drinks over Christmas and come back next year in a calmer mood!

But it was a truly wonderful night to see the likes of Grieve, Soubry, Wollaston, Lee, Gauke, Umunna, Swinson and many other democracy deniers get a sharp lesson in democracy and what happens when MP’s don’t listen to the people.
Votes, turkeys and Christmas come to mind.
Shame about Caroline Flint though.

Please do not waste it. We need urgent reform. Amongst the first things on the list should be the BBC, the house of Lords and the way the courts were able to interfere in what was clearly a political matter.

With 66% fewer votes than the Lib Dems the SNP won 336% more seats!
How can this disparity be allowed to continue?

Also, I heard that there were cases of people arriving at polling stations to find that someone had already used their vote. Time for some stricter controls,
at the very least a polling card should be required.

Boris himself has comprehensively damned the WA on several occasions but now praises it in spite of the tweaks being minor. Will he now push through this treaty or first amend it to resemble something like a proper Brexit?

If pushed through in its present form then true sovereignty will not have been delivered and the arguments will continue.

I hope our new tranche of MPs will renew this pledge, and that our PM will abandon his ”oven ready deal” acknowledging now that it is Theresa May’s dead WA with lipstick. We shan’t even mind his admitting he was trying to bamboozle us with it – so long as it’s all right in the end.
Because if it’s not all right, it’s not the end.

Indeed the bias of the BBC was an outrage even this morning they do not realise how out of touch they are. The presenter like Marr and Kirsty Walk do not even realised how biased the BBC is unless they are just lying that is. Such are lefty art grads.

The Lib Dems had a MASSIVE opportunity to seize the centre ground from a far left Labour Party and once again they failed. The LD’s are really a pointless party UNLESS they get in someone with a far more astute understanding than they currently posses in their party

Indeed if they cannot even push a Corbyn led Labour Party into second place what chance have they got? But all their agenda, like the BBC’s, is totally wrong. They are Pro EU, climate alarmist, for even bigger government, even higher taxes and for endless more red tape and PC drivel.

The conservative party should now acknowledge the tremendous effort of the brexit party in securing the tory win…..I would suggest that without brexit party campaign in the midlands and the north there may have been a hung parliament

Well done Sir. We could do a lot worse than to have you as our next Chancellor. I expect the usual suspects will be here soon to tell us that we didn’t know what we were voting for and how we have to rerun it!

Is the SNP socialist, liberal, or pro-free enterprise? We must ask someone.
If they stay in power much longer one of those tastes of power will dominate.
It is likely to go more socialist as the socialist politicians have lost their home and will pose an even greater threat to Scottish people. In fact it is happening.
The SNP, a Labour Party by any name. A fatal mixture of socialism and nationalism. Just keep an ear out for the sound of nasty red bigger boots.

All I can say is I’m glad we left Scotland. Ayr has just voted in the SNP. They were always Conservative. I am much happier living in England and hope the Scots aren’t handed more money to stay in the UK. Let them earn it like we have to and let them go without all the freebies for a change.

Political parties are like long established businesses, when faced with a paradigm shift they carry on trying to make their outdated offering work. It never does and eventually they go bust .

There is a massive “gap in the market” for a new kind of political party in the UK, one that champions democratic change to our outdated systems, one that uses new technology to build manifestos and consensus , one that operates bottom up not top down. iDemocracy is the future , but political types aren’t renowned for being innovative and creative .

Most Labour voters are actually small ‘c’ Conservatives. Patriotic, entrepreneurs, they give their sons to the military, they want law and order . . . We can win them for evermore if we reward their ‘conservatism’ instead of taxing them to hell and back.

Congratulations, I look forward to reading your blog and input into UK politics.

I see the brexit party sadly did not gain any seats but here ironically it can be argued the conservative party split the leave vote in some areas. If the system were AV+ we would be seeing a handful of brexit party and a few more conservatives.

I will be interested to see how a strong conservative government works, we have learned the fixed term parliament act is nonsense, we have seen the BBC license is unfair and unwanted, postal votes and voting security needs improvement along with many other jobs in parliament – this parliament should be busy.

I hope sovereignty clauses can be added to the WA2 first, stopping the EU using it to jerk us around is important.

So, the Tories have a stonking majority. They can now do whatever they like. Some contributors to this site will now expect a clean and proper Brexit. The course of action consistent with this aim is to scrap the WA Treaty and simply leave on January 31st 2020. But assuming BJ goes ahead with his treaty, then some will still expect that we shall leave on December 31st 2020, either with a basic FTA (that the EU has absolutely no interest in offering), or with no deal at all. It would be very strange if BJ were to ratify the WA Treaty, only to then leave without an FTA. Stranger still if the EU were, in essence, happy to let the UK have its cake and eat it, which would be the effect of the basic FTA argued for by some of this parish. My own view is that something very much less strange will happen…

By the way, I think it a little premature to congratulate the voters Sir John. Let’s just wait and see what your party actually does with its handsome majority…

So we give the EU 39 billion euros for nothing and we keep all the criminals they have sent us. Then we have a basic FTA with the EU who have a massive trade surplus with us. How is this having our cake and eating it?

You may have misunderstood what I was saying. The point is that signing the WA Treaty then having a Canada +++ deal not only doesn’t make sense, but in fact doesn’t seem to be possible given pledges on level playing fields and regulatory alignment sufficient to allow ‘frictionless trade’. In even simpler terms, the EU is not going to allow the UK to maintain existing trading arrangements AND outflank the EU competitively. The choice is clear; align with the EU, but jump to their tune, or break clean and clear from the EU and compete with them. Guess which the Tories are aiming for…

The ERG and the DUP are now dead in the water, as is Farage. This new Conservative cohort looks somewhat centrist to me. Boris’s version of the Withdrawal Agreement is the only hand to play that will lead to an “Ukraine Plus” EU – UK Association Agreement, by December 2020.

Nobody in Downing Street and Whitehall wants a “WTO rules” Brexit, the economic downside risk is far too high. You may be aware that the WTO de-facto ceased to operate last Wednesday. The EU is going to do a Trump with any WTO members that try taking the piss.

I take it you have all read page 48 of the Conservative manifesto and the media comments from the like of R Buckland Conservative MP, who wants to ban tactical voting and turn the UK into a one party state.

Your first and second points are surely correct. The WTO and its future are a side issue to Brexit, albeit a significant one in its own right. As for the third point, who knows? The wording is vague. The constitution is clearly broken and reform is essential. But how that can possibly be achieved in any sensible way is beyond me. A constitution requires the broadest of consent. I cannot see how any efforts at reform will be anything but partisan. That we lurch from one constititional crisis to another is inevitable. The prognosis is dire.

The ball is now in Boris’s court. A clean Brexit down the WTO route with a draft FTA and continuity under a mutually agreed Art 24 of GATT submission. That way everyone would be happy. Any reversion to WA2 is unthinkable as it is WA1 with a clover leaf. Tie up the loose ends of our future relationship with a treaty under the Vienna Convention.

Don’t forget to add the Bruges Group to your list Martin. Boris can concede and soften the old red lines to get a deal with the EU by 31/12/2020. Little chance of him losing a vote now.

I expect some early legislation to repeal the CRAG Act and similar legislation so Treaty making becomes a purely Downing Street competence, with a simple “non-meaningful” yes or no vote in a somewhat reduced competence HoC.

John, your Government now has five years to improve the lives of people living in the North of England and Wales. Don’t let the voters down. We desperately need jobs in our coastal and rural towns. Stop moving jobs to the cities that has been caused by the Power House of the North policy. Place the new jobs Brexit will create in these deprived areas. Your party has been given a golden opportunity, don’t waste it.

You are wrong. The Government controls the Civil Service that provides hundreds of thousands of jobs. During the 1980s Margaret Thatcher relocated thousands of jobs from the south of the country to the north. This saved huge amounts of money as accommodation was cheap and good quality staff was available. There will be new public sector jobs because we will need to take over roles currently carried out by the EU. I’m suggesting these jobs are located in the deprived northern towns. What’s wrong with that? I live in the north and have seen the damage done by recent Government policy. If politicians fail to grasp the issues, they will fail to get re-elected.

The Blackpool area has lost over thousand Civil Service jobs over the last few year due to the Power House of the North policy. These jobs have been moved to the Northern cities which didn’t need them and it actually costs more to locate them there.

Governments dont create jobs ( apart from government workers) They dont move jobs anywhere , they dont place then

Most businesses work best in urban areas with high concentrations of customers and supply chain, support services. Rural and more remote areas need to create jobs based on tourism, leisure or services delivered digitally

Its about LOCAL government trying to make their small town or coastal community attractive places to do business. Sadly most local councils haven’t got a clue how to do this. If they want to see an example though Ashford in Kent in the 1990’s was a run down market town with a population of 30,000 and declining industry as rail yards closed. Fast forward to 2019 population 129,000 new college, new creative quarter , shopping mall that draws people from all over Kent, loads of new housing , 1.000’s of new jobs in the creative industries , low cost small office space as well as a brand new crowdfunded £4m brewery etc etc . How did they do this? They engaged people asked them what they needed in order to set up in business there then tried to provide it

Logistically Kent is in a much better position than the northern towns. It is near to London and the continent. It is an attractive area to set up a business.

The Government will need to create new jobs to take over processes currently carried out by the EU. The Conservatives have promised to help deprives areas in the north so why not locate these jobs where there is higher unemployment. Seems a no-brainer to me.

You are wrong that the Government doesn’t help create jobs. My own job moved to Scotland because Scottish grants were given to my company to relocate there. Unfortunately, the Government doesn’t consider the damage done to areas from the policies it implements. Three large Government offices have been demolished in my areas with the loss of over 2000 good jobs just to achieve George Osborne’s Power House of the North objectives.

Another example of just how unrepresentative the UK system of “democracy” is. Another minority mandate government (43.6% does not represent a majority), and another example of how not all votes are equal in the UK (Conservatives +1.2% vote share, +47MPs, LibDems +4.2% vote share, -1MP).

Does any major party get way above 50% under PR?
No they don’t?
You are playing with statistics.
The more parties there are that stand for election the less is the chance of the winning party getting above 50%.

One vote in the Western Isles is worth five times as much as a vote in the Isle of Wight. Those 48 seats the Scottish National Socialists have don’t look so impressive in that light.The boundaries need to be redrawn.

Put it differently: this large majority means that the UK government can make decisisons in the interest of the UK economy, and not be held captive by a small group of idealists. Those opposed to a united Europe (with or without the UK) will no longer be able to use the UK as a tool. I expect there to be a pragmatic progression towards a mutually beneficial relationship between the UK and the EU and an end to the WWII rhetoric in some circles.

It was created to keep one nation in particular under control and did indeed have scope to go beyond the Iron Curtain when we joined in 1973, though clearly the voting population couldn’t possibly have conceived this in 1975.

Just a slight brake on immigration until we settled a bit would have avoided all of this.

Instead our leaders demonised their own people thus jeopardising the whole project.

I hope that now Boris has got the numbers he will negotiate harder with a no deal threat in the background to get rid of much of the BRINO which is in the ‘withdrawal agreement’. This is ‘oven-ready’ like many a turkey.

Remain came bundled with an absurd Marxist agenda lead by a comical ideologue and committed Brexiteer
Both parties are thoroughly disliked but the route away from Brexit was only via a Corbyn led coalition supported by the SNP and deeply uncomfortable Liberals . That few people felt able to pay this price is only democracy for the beneficiaries of this utterly failing system.
Now we will pay for their lies with additional borrowing – there was no happy end to this but I have never felt so hopeless about the future

The EU comes bundled with weird ideology full stop. We are just not allowed to say it without being called headbangers and nutters by the likes of you.

The Lib Dems slumped and their leader was unseated – yet again.

There was the Remainers non-Marxist – and greenist – route to an automatic Remain but it was rejected outright.

Your continual assertions that there is an oppressed majority for Remain are thoroughly discredited and the biggest lie was told by you and the likes of you – that you would abide by the referendum result when you placed your ‘X’.

Boris has secured a big enough majority to send a very powerful message to Brussels. Along with the failure of the LibDems to get many seats and the loss of Jo Swinson- I think Brussels can interpret that as confirmation that the British still want to leave the EU!

I pray that we get a meaningful Brexit, and gradual smashing of the Cultural Marxism that has been allowed to infiltrate our once fine country.

Lib and MIC Agree Libertarian. I notice the EU were also bending over backwards to keep receiving our money without which they would be stumped. Time to tell them we are really leaving and by leaving I mean Leave.

Thank heavens we voted to reject Mr Corbyn’s marxist policies, and we are not now going the way of Venezuela or Zimbabwe. The diehard marxists in the Labour Party still don’t get it. One of Mr Corbyn’s compatriots said last night “we need to change the attitude of the public”. What he should or course have said is “we need to change our attitude to the public”. Zealots never learn, have never learned, will never learn.

Congratulations on retaining your seat and seeing off the carpet-bagger. Now help Boris to grow a pair and stand up to the EU. Leave at the end of the transition period, no more concessions, if there isn’t enough time for an FTA then sign GATT24.

It was good to hear Boris say in his speech that he was humble that some labour supporters had lent him their votes for 5yrs…….I just wonder how soon he will forget that it was those northern voters that secured his victory, how soon will he forget the referendum result and how soon will he forget the brexit party…and how soon will he forget that brexit means brexit and pursue a WA2

Congrats sirrah! Now it is time to be magnanimous in victory and bring together a divided kingdom…. otherwise, Scotland and NI could go their own way. It’s time to end the divisive rhetoric and become a party for all aspiring people. I would urge you to change your slogan from ‘speaking for England’ to ‘speaking for the UK’.

The people decided to leave the EU. Again! And those that attempted to bring down our Brexit have paid the penalty for defying the electorate. Well played the British people.
I read however, that despite a 78 majority in the HoC for Boris and the Brexiteers, there are still some die-hard remainers determined to carry on with their blatant betrayal of democracy. What motivates these people? Certainly not principle more like money, I guess. Now, while someone behind the scenes funds them and their cause, so it will continue. It is an outraged so it is time for our press, even the BBC, to seek out and investigate these coverts, the real deniers of British democracy.
After this new and past repeated failures of the Pollsters and the Polling Gurus to correctly forecast the result, it is time they were all sued under the Trades Description Act. Who actually pays them?

Congratulations to you on your re-election as MP for Wokingham and your party on a tremendous victory.

The one disappointing aspect for me was the loss of conservative seats in Scotland. This will no doubt lead to more calls from the SNP for another independence referendum. Indeed, as I write, Ms. Sturgeon is issuing her first of what will be many tirades against Boris Johnson, Westminster and the nasty English.

Mr. Johnson should not try to appease the SNP and the Scottish people with the offer of more money or more powers through devolution. It is well past time that the Barnett formula was scrapped. There are regions in the rest of the UK that could do with extra funding.

I do not think Mr. Johnson can ignore a call for another independence referendum forever. It does not sit easily to demand independence for the UK from the EU but then deny it for a Scotland that wants to leave the United Kingdom.

To end on a rather flippant note; I like to watch proceedings in the HofC but the thought of having to listen to 49 SNP MP’s carping on about independence fills me with dread. Perhaps, that is a good enough reason to allow another referendum!

I disagree completely with your analysis. I am remarkably positive about all this.

I loathe Tory Brexit and all it represents – but now they have no excuse. For years they have blamed everyone else for all our ills. It was the EU, then the judges, then the BBC, then business, then Remainers, then Bercow – a constant stream of blame on others.

Now they are totally exposed. They have nobody left to blame. The failings will all be theirs.

The have not fundamentally redrawn the electoral map. They faced the worse opposition leader in history, they refused to reveal any policies and they have a dodgy man in charge. It will all start unraveling remarkably quickly.

@ Andy ” They have nobody left to blame” – oh yes there is! Dame Lucy Doolittle and Dr. Roy Spendlove, both strangely quiet for now but the obstructionist antics of whom have been explored here hitherto.

Well if Remain wanted to play “best of three” they got their answer in no uncertain terms, as this was effectively a second referendum on Brexit.
Case closed I think.
Warmest congratulations to Sir John on a richly deserved reward for all his hard work.
Well batted!

Sky headlined it as The Brexit Election.
Lots of lefty losers on TV claiming the Brexit issue was why they lost the election.
The only real Leave party the Lib Dems did poorly again.
Labour’s policy on Brexit was rejected by the voters.

Like the SNP thinking the people of Scotland voted to leave the UK when they actually voted to remain in the EU. The Conservative Party should not assume the Country has become Conservative overnight. Boris, whether he acknowledges it or not, owes some of his success to Nigel Farage and the Brexit Party, and likewise anyone who voted to Leave the EU. Conservative Leave MP’s seemed to be a bit thin on the ground. Same in the Labour Party.
In this General Election a vote for the Conservative Party was a vote for Democracy, and that Parliament is accountable to the People and not to itself.

I am not sure a vote for Conservatives was a vote for democracy. It was only TBP that had policy of respecting referendum and reforming the electoral system (more proportion and unicameral). The Conservative manifesto strongly commits to simply tweaking the current system, it does not commit to democracy.

Now Boris has no excuses, nowhere to hide behind if he takes the thundering majority and mandate and turns it into a whimper when settling terms with the EU.

I don’t hold with being magnanimous in victory, the Conservative Party may have won but nothing has been delivered yet for those who voted to leave and faced years of insult, abuse and deceit. Last night is not yet a victory for us and If the likes of the BBC and other NGOs are allowed to simply get away with their past behaviour we will have won nothing and you politicians will have learned nothing.

Corbyn was the new kid on the block in 2017 up against Theresa May, a TERRIBLE Prime Minister!
Things were very different in 2019 as Labour’s ridiculous Brexit fence sitting and money tree promises were exposed.
Momentum will ensure another far left candidate will replace Corbyn so its important that Boris mow moves the Party to the left or he quite simply will lose all the Labour heartlands voters that won him this election !

We should see that Farage was the true hero in this election. He should take his peerage as without his generous standing down of Brexit party candidates the result may have been different. Boris should shake his hand in gratitude.

Corbyn and his Momentum pals have been firmly put in their place. Look at their front bench. There is not a leader among them. They say their defeat was down to their position on Brexit but it was much more than that. They need to get rid of the Momentum scouge that has infiltrated the party and go back to a party that truly represents the working man.

Congrats JR on your well deserved victory. I thought that it was busy at the polling stations but apparently the turnout was slightly lower than 2017 in Wokingham. Not surprisingly the remainer vote coalesced around the Lib Dem candidate hence the reduced majority but still healthy enough.

Final scores through my letterbox were 18 flyers from the Lib Dems, including letters from Brian Paddick, Sarah Wollaston, and Sam Gyimah!!

We had 18 from the LibDems as well, the last one being delivered at 20.00 hrs on Thursday evening, saying we only had until 22.00hrs to vote, to save us from Brexit !!!!!

I think the electoral Commission should perhaps take a look at the LibDems expenditure in this, and some other constituencies which they targeted with a very big push, and I would guess with a very large budget.

Do not let the euphoria of a conservative election victory fool you. Boris will not deliver a true, no strings, no tentacles total severance from the EU.
Remember the Globalist Establishment pull the strings.
The carbon neutral, global warming crap and Paris climate accord is a globalist agenda to ‘con’ the population.
Who audits where the money goes?

Listening to our MSM commentators and reporters during the night I was struck by just how often they referred to ‘working class’ areas in the north, amazed that Conservatives could possibly gain votes and Labour lose them. I even heard someone talking about ‘mining towns’.

They are clearly stuck in their own cliched world, as if they imagine there to be thousands of mainly men, trudging daily to the factories and back wearing their flat caps and clogs.

I’m not sure there is a ‘working class’ any more and if there us they are not a lumpen mass; they are individuals who think and act for themselves.

It’s time the chatterers moved into the modern world. Just another another element of the stables to be cleaned out.

Could plans start to be put in place to pull the defence/military resource and capability out of Scotland, and of course to define the best future relationship for rUK when Scotland leave? Having a pro-independence party win 80% of the seats in Scotland seems to make an Indy2 referendum a waste of resources. Surely, it is time for Scotland to leave the UK.

England should leave Scotland to its own disaster without subsidy from us. No more civil service jobs, no more shipbuilding, no more defence work/jobs, probably a big hit in much less tourism going to Scotland…..

Agreed – we need to go on the offensive after soaking it up for 3 years. The first person to re-educate should be Mr Barnier and his ticking clock…. we have a 100 billion per annum trade deficit with them, we should not be paying them for the privilege!

Things are only complicated by as Farage( didn’t want to mention him, but) said, most of the political class and the Main stream Media doesn’t venture outside the M25.

There doesn’t need to be any constraining trade terms or deals, the choosing of whose rules to obey and who is in charge, just mutual respect and cooperation. You trade if you want and you don’t if that’s how you feel – it just needs to be reciprocated.

Anyway…. the election result was great and socialism has clearly failed.

It means not being delayed forever by socialism at a red traffic light….

…but fortunately the British are all now on a roundabout, the very embodiment of freedom and capitalism where you go when you can, having made up your own mind instead of being told what to do by socialist traffic light planners.

Of course the communist who was in the audience that evening is leaving next exit which is a very desirable outcome indeed !

I’d urge the new government to use the next five years to effect a number of constitutional reforms:
1) Abolish the FTPA
2) Reform the HoL and remove its anti-democrats on all sides
3) Formally rescind all the Bercow HoC precedents
4) Complete and enact the planned constituency boundary reform and restriction of MP numbers.
5) Clamp down on election fraud: personation, manipulation multi-postal voting etc.

When you become a mouth piece for a the Metro Marxists, there is a tendency only to believe in the hype from your own little bubble and have no respect for alternative points of view. The BBC has lost its purpose and its way, and sadly a lot of the MsM have joined the same discussion group rather than having an independent point of view.

43 people in Sweden have died in stabbings , shootings and bombings of innocent victims during 2019

11 people have died in the French protests

850 people severely injured and 2 died in Catalonia

These are just the figures for the riots and troubles and do not include the usual crime statistics . Londons drug wars fuelled murders are appalling , its what happens when you invite different communities to carry out their feuds here

Oh and you should be thoroughly ashamed of yourself for trying to make a ( wrong) political point of murder

This may be Johnson’s victory but he needs the whisper in his ear to stay honest.There is everything to lose!
The real victor was public disgust for politics and a reminder that if you ask voters what they want, you better do it!
If Johnson gets it wrong, the Tories are dead.

@JR
“…to “get Brexit done”, which means taking back control of our money, borders and laws, and means negotiating that Free Trade Agreement the EU has promised in principle.”

Do all the Members of Cabinet now also agree fully with that meaning?

Regarding any underlying reasons leading to the election results, could it be that there was that ‘silent majority’ who realised ‘Democracy’ had to win the election, because otherwise our form of democracy would be in serious jeopardy. Could it be that the majority of voters were also well and truly p*ssed off with those politicians who thought that a democratic mandate somehow didn’t apply to them.

If so, perhaps those are among the lessons that need continual repetition if our form of democracy is not to wither away.

This is such a great speech to the Bruges Group, as good as the one about socialism, traffic lights and roundabouts to the Oxford Union, with just the right amount of energy and sardonic humor to keep everyone listening and concentrating……..

“Now this new Conservative majority government has two immediate tasks. It does need as the PM says to “get Brexit done”, which means taking back control of our money, borders and laws, and means negotiating that Free Trade Agreement the EU has promised in principle. It also means an early budget, as we are in urgent need of a stimulus, at a time of world slowdown and worldwide manufacturing recession. ”

Absolutely,
Raise the anchor,
telegraph the engine room to get the Ship of State underway-
and then steer a steady course 30 degrees to starboard into the wide open blue waters of independance.

As a Tory voter in a northern constituency I am pleased that the win was delivered from the Midlands and North (with big vote share increases balancing a share erosion in the south east) and hope those areas finally get a lot more focus that they need and deserve.

Hard Brexiters should listen very carefully to the electorate and not their own echo chambers

The Tory gains in the Midlands and the North were from Leave voters who ridicule the remainer term ‘hard brexit’.
‘What’s hard about it?’ they ask sharply. ‘We voted to leave, not to hang about the EU’s coat tails, following its petty rules and regulations that only big business can afford, obeying its tinpot courts, letting continentals plunder the fish in our waters, transfer our industries to eastern Europe, allowing every Tom, Dick and Harry in to exploit in-work benefits and undercut the British worker…’
Middle-class remainers should listen very carefully to the electorate, and not their own echo chambers.

Now is the time for the UK government to spell out the realities of democracy UK style. It is obvious to me living in Europe that there is a lack of understanding of the full impact of democracy and in some areas a contempt for it. The EU does not appreciate that an incoming UK government is not bound by any half finished projects of the previous government. They must be made to understand that there is nothing to be gained from any belief they may have that they can pick up on WA2 as if it were a piece of unfinished homework. For a new government in the UK any future agreement is at present a blank sheet of paper. All the above is a dilema for the EU because it is a bureaucracy that operates minus the inconvenience of the democratic process. They possibly consider our election as a change of seats on a bus that lumbers forward on it’s original path.

Once the reality of our democracy is hammered home to them, they may be in a better position to understand that all previous game plays are over and the solution I have offered of WTO terms, an FTA proposal and the use of Art 24 of GATT are a mutually beneficial way to move forward. I leave it to you JR to hammer this home to Boris who is more than capable of appreciating it as a sensible way forward.

Nothing should be allowed to stand in the way of our sovereignty in the process. A gradual extraction from WA2 with all it’s caveats is absolutely unaccepable.

Sincere congrats & my deepest thanks Sir John, this country is based on democracy (functioning again), the MANY have spoken not just the FEW …. God bless the silent majority who are the great British public, they saw through the lies and MSM fake news.

To quote PIERS MORGAN: Boris Johnson’s triumph proves democracy-denying radical socialists backed by self-righteous celebrities on Twitter are electoral poison – and if Democrats fall for the same delusion, Trump will decimate them in 2020.

Martin, I hope it dawns on you soon that this bullying, forceful I am greater morally and more intelligent than you mantra, threatening marches and antagonising people on social media to such a point that people no longer speak their minds to people who think differently to them is an utter turn off to moderate British people. Shouting louder doesn’t make you right.

They receive donations from Unions and big donors such as Goldman Sachs

Anyway heres the official numbers for the election

All registered political parties must submit four weekly reports to the Electoral Commission in the run-up to a general election to show any sums they receive over £7,500.
The figures are:
Labour Party – £3,488,000
Conservatives – £2,967,000
The Brexit Party – £2,250,000
Liberal Democrats – £251,000
Plaid Cymru – £70,000
Green Party – £37,750

If you have a shred of evidence that any party got money from an overseas government of any kind then you need to report it to the authorities

This was like June 2016 all over again: decent, patriotic, sensible people with very little, standing up to 24/7 lies and spin from very well off people who ought to know better.

A great shame about Nigel Dodds and Zach Goldsmith. I suppose if the Green Party were prepared to put Corbyn into Downing St, they and the Alliance Party wouldn’t be above ganging up to get more of the IRA elected; and Zach must have faced a filthy dirty Liberal campaign.

A splendid result in Wokingham after all that anxiety. And very well deserved.
Can you tell us Sir John, why the media keep telling us the Queen has asked the PM to form a government? I thought he already was the PM and there already is a government.

Also do we refer to the Leader of the Opposition as such during the dissolution? I noticed they never did.

Reply There is a new government with a new Parliament. The Leader of the Opposition becomes a party leader during the election as there is Opposition in Parliament after dissolution.

When I was a leftie I wondered how some people in the NHS could vote for the Right.
Now I am a rightie I wonder how some people in the NHS could vote for the Left.
So, that’s my first and second opinions.
The NHS staff, at least half of them are not to be trusted. Possibly all of them if I’m even-handed about it
This is a major crisis in our NHS. Half to all of them are barking mad

I hope you will fight against decarbonisation which is pointless and allows China an industrial advantage. Because UK produces only one per cent of world CO2 nothing we do makes any difference. I pass over the point that CO2 is now shown not to be an important climate driver. Think of the costs and job losses. I have three gilets jaunes in my car.

About John Redwood

John Redwood won a free place at Kent College, Canterbury, and graduated from Magdalen College Oxford. He is a Distinguished fellow of All Souls, Oxford. A businessman by background, he has set up an investment management business, was both executive and non executive chairman of a quoted industrial PLC, and chaired a manufacturing company with factories in Birmingham, Chicago, India and China. He is the MP for Wokingham, first elected in 1987.